A collection of artists have come together for Creative Hinckley’s final art exhibition of 2013.

The exhibition, called The Creative Hinckley Retrospective held in the Atkins Building in Lower Bond Street, was launched last Wednesday evening and will be open for the public to view until January 25.

Since the first exhibition in 2010 there have been 68 artists represented at 19 major exhibitions at the gallery and a selection of those artists are on display at the current exhibition.

Spokesperson for the event Peter Berry, who also has his nearly black acrylic paintings on display, said: “Using the more traditional medium of painting are the technically impressive works of Geoff Stalker’s heightened realism of watery ditches and John Lancaster’s Eastern influenced intricate colour patterns in oil on paper first seen in Figuring Light 2.

“The work of the artists Maureen Cooper and Diane E Hall, which was first seen in the exhibition Trace Elements, consists of a series of modulated images and drawings based on experiences and studies of forms in nature and which use innovative techniques of printing, painting and drawing on paper and wool surfaces to great effect.

“Photography features strongly in this exhibition with quite stunning examples from the international artists first organised through and exhibited at the Gammmelgaard Kunst and Kultur Centre in Denmark.

“Debbie Bird’s work continues to explore and capture the changes in the natural form of ice over time using photography and sculpture.

“Kevin Ryan is closely associated with Creative Hinckley through the work of his arts company Charnwood Arts. In the current show Kevin is showing a set of very bright and powerful photographs of the Notting Hill Carnival and its colourful celebration.”

The exhibition also features work from Mark Boot of De Montfort University, who is showing two Light Box wall pieces and Barwell artist Mark Roberts who raised eyebrows with his Provocative Art paintings earlier in the year.

Artist Joanne Kavanagh was at the opening to sign copies of her children’s book and at the end of the evening John Brightmore, who has been chair of Creative Hinckley since its beginnings nearly three years ago, announced his retirement.